Nietzsche, ensaio de uma pedagogia messiânica: sobre as origens e o desenvolvimento do conceito de bildung em sua primeira filosofia da cultura

Abstract

This study intends to investigate the origins of the concept of Bildung as it is conceived within the domain of texts Nietzsche writes between 1858, period of his secondary education in Gymnasium, neo-humanist educational institution in 19th. century Germany, and 1876, year when he breaks up definetly with Wagner, and seems to let down some expectations about his own activity as professor in Basel, whaere he teached since 1869. Between those two time limits, it is possible to notice a formulation of this concept that stands by what we could call his early philosophy of culture, that brings up to date and resizes a series of philosophical, institutional, social and aesthetic traditions, searching for an unity exactly by their confrontation. The research I intend to do here will identify the processes that arouse in this confrontation and the kind of sinthetical treatment that Nietzsche gave to problems that were contemporary to him. The lectures Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten, delivered in Basel in the winter of 1872, act as the privileged place of this treatment, as they harshly criticize culture and its institution in Germany by their time and try to define the basis for what should be the rescue of true culture.